The development company directors behind this premium new apartment in boutique building The Nuffield Residences wanted to create something iconic on a site they have family history with.
Twenty years ago Charles St Clair Brown’s Great Uncle ran an Austin Motor Franchise from a building formerly in this location on fashion-forward Nuffield Street parallel to Broadway.
Charles says: “I really loved the street and felt this site deserved an iconic building.”
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Charles and wife Megan are directors of the development company behind this select, newly-completed building of 16 apartments. Many sold off the plans some time ago and this two-bedroom plus flexi-room apartment is one of only four available.
Charles commissioned renowned NZ architect Neville Price who designed the acclaimed distinctive West Plaza Tower at the bottom of Albert Street before accelerating his career in the U.S.
Charles says: “I’d always admired the style and form of his buildings. He creates enduring, beautiful architecture.”
This sculptural white building is made of post-stressed concrete, poured on site, giving it strength, high seismic veracity and superior sound absorption. This premium technique negates the needs for columns and enables thinner floors resulting in increased ceiling height.
Apartment floor-plans stretch all the way through the building, bestowing each residence with easterly and westerly decks and outlooks and good natural air flow bolstered by air-conditioning.
Charles, who knows because he has an apartment here with Megan, says: “These apartments enjoy sun from the East in the mornings and then later from the West into the bedrooms.
“And the views are marvellous, including Rangitoto and the harbour, Mt Hobson and Mt Eden and the picturesque silver beech trees down Nuffield Street. Plus there’s the view of the Sky Tower and another perspective of Newmarket from the other end of the apartment.”
Ground floor retail is likely to be a cafe or similar.
Apartment 601/85 Nuffield Street in Newmarket, Auckland is priced at $1.82M has a two-way audio-visual intercom to the lobby and comes with one car-parking space.
Its balcony is larger-than-typical and made to feel like an extension of living thanks to exceptionally generous recessing glass sliders plus an outdoor extension of the kitchen’s Corrian bench. Outdoor living has enhanced privacy courtesy of outer wing walls and the greenery of up-lit, mature griselinia trees growing in striking fashion up the building’s exterior in planter boxes.
Julie Field’s clean, sophisticated interior design incorporates Italian Boffi kitchens with top-of-the-line Fisher and Paykel appliances. Extra-height recessed ceilings in the living-dining area soar 2.65-metres above European oak flooring.
A flexi-room which can be a study or accommodate a pull-out bed flows nicely to two good-sized bedrooms with plentiful wardrobing. Both open to the westerly deck; one is ensuited and the other serviced by a svelte bathroom. An in-cupboard laundry is nearby.
Charles says buyers to date include professionals and downsizers attracted by the architecture, style, structural integrity and convenience of living on the doorstep of Newmarket’s designer shops, eateries, bars and entertainment.
Ray White Epsom owner Heather Walton says: “The downsizers who’ve bought so far are thrilled with their investment and the apartments’ international feel with the high street stores in Nuffield Street and the wonderful new Westfield Mall nearing completion nearby.”
The pet-friendly, double Grammar-zoned complex is four minutes walk to Newmarket Train Station, convenient for commuters or those with children wanting transport to schools such as Kings.
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